Recent Graduates

Jeremy Pritt (advisor: Dr. Christine Mayer), defended his Ph.D., "Fish Migration as an Ecosystem
Linkage between Lake Erie and its Tributaries", on January 10, 2014. Jeremy is now
a post-doctoral research at USGS in Ann Arbor.

Amanda Haponski (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien), defended her Ph.D., "Evolutionary, biogeographic, and
population genetic patterns of walleye and other Sander: Relationships across continents, corridors, and spawning sites", on June 20, 2013.
Amanda is now a post-doc in the Great Lakes Genetics/Genomics Lab at the LEC.

Nate Manning (advisors: Drs. Christine Mayer and Jon Bossenbroek), defended his Ph.D., “Modeling the Effects of Turbidity on Age-0 Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) in the
Western Basin of Lake Erie", on May 29, 2013.

Jason Ross (advisor: Dr. Christine Mayer), defended his M.S., "A Coastal Monitoring Program
for a Large Lake Fish Community: the first step in capturing long-term trends and
addressing evolving questions", on June 18, 2013.

Todd Crail(advisor: Dr. Jon Bossenbroek) defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "The ecological niche
of darters (Pisces:Percidae) across multiple scales in the Ohio River Basin", on May
15, 2012. He is now an Instructor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at UT.

Sarah Panek(advisor: Dr. Tom Bridgeman) defended her M.S. thesis, The ecology of the nuisance
cyanobacterium, Lyngbya wollei, in the Western Basin of Lake Erie "The ecology of the nuisance cyanobacterium, Lyngbya wollei, in the Western Basin of Lake Erie", on March 29 2012.

Kristen DeVanna (advisor: Dr. Christine Mayer) defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Spatial correlation
and facilitation between Dreissena and Hexagenia: Possible food-web disruption," on August 26, 2011. She is now a post-doctoral researcher
at the Ohio State University.

Justin Chaffin (advisor: Dr. Tom Bridgeman) defended his M.Sc. thesis, "Physiological Ecology of
Microcystis Blooms in Turbid Waters of Western Lake Erie," on July 21, 2009. He is
continuing on at the Lake Erie Center in the Ph.D. program.